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ID: 700008805
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008805
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
Samson Fighting with the Lion (woodcut (print); Dürer, Albrecht (German, 1471-1528); ca. 1497/1498;)
Titles:
Samson Fighting with the Lion (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
woodcut (print) [300041405] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, relief prints)

Classifications:
prints (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1497/1498

Creator Display:
Dürer, Albrecht (German, 1471-1528) [preferred,VP]
Dürer, Albrecht (German printmaker and painter, 1471-1528) [500115493]
Locations:
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States) [500115983] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 1964.8.1789
Credit Line: Rosenwald Collection
Display Materials: woodcut
woodcut (process) [300053296]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, relief printing processes)

Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to image): 38 x 27.8 cm (14 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
General Subject:
religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
Samson and the Lion [901000828]
.....((Life of Samson, Old Testament narratives, Old Testament iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: Exhibition History: 1995 Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Samson and the Lion.
Related Works:
printed from plate/block .... Woodblock for Samson Rending the Lion [700008804]
..........wood block (printing block); Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471-1528 Nuremberg); ca. 1497-1498; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 19.73.255;

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
Samson Fighting with the Lion........ [VP]
........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)
Subject: ....... [VP]
....................... Meder. Dürer-Katalog Meder, no. 107
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